Eldee
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Eldee has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1918. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 6 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 55% boys, 45% girls all-time.
Babies named Eldee, 1918
1 in 362,000
Eldee over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Eldee over time
In 1921, Eldee went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Eldee?
Eldee had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1918, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1918
- 1 in 362,000
- 6 of 2,171,052 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 169,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1918
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 250,811 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Eldee sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1918 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 250,811 children born in 1918 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eldee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Eldees were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Eldee was born before 1918 — so the typical Eldee is around 107 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).
Is Eldee rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1918 (6)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Eldee
Eldee is not the most common spelling — Lee is, with 34.3% against Eldee's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Eldee by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Eldee
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Eldee
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.